St. Landry democrat., 1887-03-05
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.


was kneeling in prayer.
lobe and Sam jackson escaped from
the Barlow County (Ga.l Jail few nights
ago, Tobe had been taken from the con
Wet camp to testify against his brother
and the latter had been convicted.
The Tennessee House Of Representatives
has passed the prohibition resolution, the
vote being 81 to 4 The resolution had
previously passed the Senate.
James McElroy, the negro who was
convicted several weeks ago Of the muir
der of Walter Mort in Sc ptember last, was
sentenced at Henderson, Ky. By Judge
Gavens to be hanged on May l3
The people of Augusta, Ga, are moving
to rebuild the magnificent opera-hOuse re-
Gently burned. A subscription list to
builda splendid hotel on the site Of the old
Globe Hotel has been started.
| The wife of G, V. Severon, a travelling
! photographer, committed suicide at Wolf
| City, Tex, few days ago The cause
was family troubles She took some
chemical preparation from dark room.
| Major J. S. Penn, proprietor and
/ manager of the Laredo (TeX) Times, was
recently adjudged violently insane. Two
| years ago ne had a severe attack of Rio
| Grande fever, from which he never fully
I
! Governor Ireland.
Mrs D. P. Hathaway was, few days
| since, appointed by Judge Edwards
| deputy commissioner of the Chancery
/ Court at Louisville, Ky. The lady quail
/ lifted at once, Deputy Clerk John &.
Walker administering the oath of office.
| Mrs. Hathaway is an expert stenographer,
and has the distinction of being the only
woman commissioner ever holding lice
in Kentucky.
A negro named Thomas Gay was re-
Gently arrested by an Atlanta (Ga) police
officer. and the discovery was made that
| in hamper basket which he carried on
his arm from room to room and house to
house, was complete saloon, on small
scale. The officer found the liquors to be
of the best grade The negro, it is said,
was making neat little income from his
novel outfit
The defalcation of Treasurer Joseph Of
the Texas Grand Lodge of Odd-FelloWs
seems to embrace all the funds of the or
der he could lay his hands on.
The Goodwin murder trial at Memphis
resulted in verdict of not guilty, ard
Goodwin was discharged.
The Tennessee Midland railroad has
been chartered
The convict system in Georgia will be
antagonized by a company now being
formed at Atlanta to purchase the fur
naces and mines of Senator Brown.
Dominic Isadore Robot, ex-Prefect
Apostolic of the Indian Territory, died at
Dallas Tex, a few days ago, and his re-
mains were forwarded to McAlDster, l.
T., for interment
Seven citizens Of Greer County, Tex,
were arrested and taken to Fort Smith,
Ark, few days ago, and placed under
900 bond in the Federal Court on
charges of lynching number of people in
the Indian Territory.
Patrick H. Monahan, who some months
ago shot and severely wounded Miss Car
ney at Nashville, Tenn, because she re-
fused to him, was recently convicted and
awarded ten years in the penitentiary.
Monahan also shot Mrs. Carney and at
tempted to shoot young man who was
visiting Miss Carney.
Dr. E. B. Way was assassinated at his
home, about twenty miles west of Hell
ena, Ark, recently. The shot was fired
by an unknown party through the win
dow, the discharge, six slugs, taking eff
feet in his heart, killing him instantly.
The murderer has SO far escaped
Some unknown party shot Dill Miles, a
negro, near Smithfeld, KY, recently,
while Miles was cutting oats IN a barn.
Miles died from his wounds. There is no
clew to the assassin, but it is limited there
is a woman in the case. The pistol was
fired through crack in the barn.
At meeting of gentlemen interested in
the Tennessee Midland railroad at Nash |
vile, Tenn, few days ago, arrange
ments were perfected for the immediate
survey of line from Memphis to Bristol.
There is no doubt that the road will be
built and that work will soon be COM |
menced.
Albert Norton, shipping clerk for
leading Mem phis (Tenn.) shoe house, was |
cowhided few evenings since by |
woman named Grace Turner, who |
went into the store where he was at work
and struck him several times across the
face She claimed that Norton had
beaten her the night before.
A fire broke out in the sweat-room of
the large brick tobacco factory of David
Dunlap, at Petersb urg, Va, a few nights
ago. and in less than half an hour the
whole building, with stock machinery
and fixtures was completely consumed.
The loss is fully S250,00O partly covered
bv insurance in Northern and foreign
companies.
George W. McKelvey, son Of one Of the
wealthiest and most prominent planters
of Douglas County, Ga, twenty miles
from Atlanta, was instantly killed while
coupling cars on the Georgia Pacific, near
his home McKelvey, who was quito
young, had become so infatuated with rail
road work that his parents, though
wealthy and influential, were unable to
keep him off the road
At Mount Carmel. KY, a few days ago,
while John Arnold was loading household
goods in wagon, double barreled shot"
gun which lie was trying to force in the
wagon breech foremost was accidently
discharged, killing him instantly and
mutilating his body in a shocking manner.
The British ship Shuan, from New Or
leans for Havre, went ashore in the Gulf
of Mexico a few days ago, sixty miles west
of Cedar Keys. The cargo consisted of